Articles by Myles Tiessen

Noah Derksen Brought Plainspoken Intimacy to Winnipeg

West End Cultural Centre, March 31

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2023

Noah Derksen undeniably makes prairie music — deeply personal, lyric-heavy folk songs infused with a great deal of atmosphere and space. It...

FONTINE Introduces Herself on the Enchanting 'Yarrow Lover' EP

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2023

FONTINE has quietly been a key player in the Manitoba folk scene for what feels like ages now. A natural collaborator, she's worked with an...

Matt Foster's 'True Needs' Is a Quiet Storm

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

Matt Foster is in no rush. On "Hospital," a particularly muted track planted delicately in the middle of their stunning debut solo album Tr...

Julianna Riolino Discovers Hope Amid Heartbreak on the Richly-Shaded 'All Blue'

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2022

During his short-lived Blue Period, Pablo Picasso painted The Old Guitarist, one of his most famous and enduring works. A portrait of an is...

Status/Non-Status Wander Inward with 'Surely Travel'

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022

WHOOP-szo spent roughly a decade playing the DIY Canadian music scene before releasing their 2019 debut album, Warrior Down. Filled with fr...

'Slingshot' Launches Winnipeg's JayWood into New Territory

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2022

On "YGBO," an interlude that appears late on JayWood's sophomore album Slingshot, the Winnipegger repeatedly shouts a line that, on its own...

Toronto Goth Rocker Praises Plays Their Cards Right on 'In This Year: Hierophant'

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2022

Jesse Crowe, better known by the appellation Praises, draws a card from a tarot deck at the start of each new year. Crowe uses the randomly...

Jamboree Push at Conscious and Conceptual Barriers on 'Life in the Dome'

PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2022

To decrypt Jamboree's Life in the Dome is to discover a melancholic tale of desolation. The sophomore release from the Winnipeg alt-rockers...